Optimizing Workflow Archival

[tihomir]

@Vikas_NS

I’m running temporal on docker, does archival work with this setup?

Yes, it should work with Docker deployments as well.

[tihomir]

@Vikas_NS

Can I point Archival to 2 different S3 buckets based on Namespace? Ex - Archival Data of Namespace 1 goes to Bucket 1 and that of Namespace 2 goes to Bucket 2 ? Or I need to a write custom provider to achieve the same?

Yes, each namespace can have its one single specific archival URI, more info in docs.

[tihomir]

@Vikas_NS

Is Archival a batch job that archives workflow once a day or does the archival happen at a each workflow level? Want to understand how workflow archival is triggered.

Archiver is an internal workflow - https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/master/service/worker/archiver/workflow.go
which should get triggered per workflow execution when the execution closes and its configured retention period is reached.